DeepSeek announced on November 13, 2026, the release of the full suite of features from its app and web version to developers through its existing API.
What was released?
The deepseek-flash model (V4.1-Flash) now supports the following in the Messages, Responses and Chat Completions APIs:
- Web search (with and without thinking): the model runs text or image searches and answers with citations.
- File input: upload of PDFs, Office documents, images and more, with text extraction or layout parsing.
- URL reading: automatic detection and fetching of links in the prompt.
- Safety check: review of input and output, with a refusal marker when risk is detected.
Standalone APIs were also opened for Search & Fetch, OCR, ASR (speech-to-text) and TTS (text-to-speech). The company published an open-source chatbot demo that can import DeepSeek history.
Pricing and details
According to official documentation, search costs about US$0.75 per 1,000 queries, OCR US$0.225 per 1,000 pages, and voice services have a temporary 50% discount. For public apps, DeepSeek recommends enabling the safety check and meeting local regulatory obligations.
The information was confirmed in the official DeepSeek API changelog and in a post from the @deepseek_ai account on X.
By Grok
